This innovative production combines Sophocles’ revenge play with Ingmar Bergman’s film to explore ideas of identity and performativity.
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As Donald Trump has gained fame and power, his rage at opponents and appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened. A classics scholar looks to literature for help understanding him.
The US response to 9/11 included a declaration that America would destroy its enemies. The effort took decades, and thousands of lives on both sides, and never really succeeded.
Research highlights at least six different motivations for perpetrators that commit arson.
The custodians of one of Hollywood’s most reliable cash machines have been careful to sidestep political minefields that might remind customers of a realm outside the Magic Kingdom.
Thinking about revenge makes the brain’s reward centres light up.
For decades, rape-revenge films focused on fathers avenging crimes against their daughters. But filmmakers are telling new stories.
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
Trump’s firing of witnesses who testified during his impeachment trial has been described as ‘retribution.’ But these actions are actually revenge, a political scientist says.
As revenge films go, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is watchable if uninspired. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the film is the controversy surrounding the violence it depicts.
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